Full Description
This classic textbook has provided students of medical law and ethics with a framework for exploring this fascinating subject for over 30 years. Providing coverage of all of the topics found on medical law courses, it gives an overview of the inter-relationship between ethical medical practice and the law. Medical law is significantly shaped by the courts, and as such this book provides extensive coverage of recent judicial decisions as well as statutory developments. This book has continually evolved to reflect changes in the law and shifting ethical opinions and the tenth edition continues to fulfil this remit.
Contents
12: Public health and the state-patient relationship3: Health rights and obligations in the European Union4: Consent to treatment5: Liability for medical injury6: Medical confidentiality7: Genetic information and the law8: The management of infertility and childlessness9: The control of fertility10: Civil and criminal liability in reproductive medicine11: Health resources and dilemmas in treatment12: Treatment of the aged13: Mental health and human rights14: The body as property15: Medical futility16: The diagnosis of death17: The donation of organs and transplantation18: Euthanasia and assistance in dying19: Biomedical human research and experimentation20: Research on children, fetuses and embryos
